hunker down

To make a bowel movement where the facilities are not available in the area.

Seeing that there was no bathroom for miles, Bill had to hunker down in the woods.

by Krammy July 16, 2005

Hunkerdown

The act of bending over and singing a long extended powerful note in a song.

The singer David Archuleta is known for giving his all in live concert settings and doing the "hunkerdown" is a common occurrence as he belts out a long, gorgeous (sometime high) note.

by lilygirl2400 November 1, 2010

Hunkerdown

Place of quarantine.

Mephistopholes remained in his hunkerdown for the rest of the pandemic, emerging only for gingerale, The Wall Street Journal and smoke.

Refusing to go to ground in a hunkerdown, brave Bettina kept her janitorial job at Lincoln Center--which was much easier now that all performances were remote. "My, my," she said later in an oral history of The Covid Time. "Fat cats didn't know if they were coming or going--if I paid 250 a ticket, I'd sure show up for the symphony."

by Hifalutin! February 9, 2022